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we have representatives from kcbs, representatives from alice radio, from filipino advocates for justice. other people have come in from the community who have seen us on the air trying to help out and to get help where it's needed. there is a lot of angst there now as people wait for this relief to come in. for this set don't reports from tacloban. >> reporter: the aid operation
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is a 24-hour-a-day effort now here in tacloban as operating lights are allowing planes to land at night. in communities we are seeing the aid trickle in. we are' seeing people line up for food. but in many plays, they say, well, food aid is certainly not gotten to my street yet. people are fending for themselves. you see people cutting water lines to get some sort of drinking water when you ask whether it's safe to drink, they ask us, well, what are the on the grounds? we have seen power crews out trying to -- what are the options? we have seen power crews out trying to clean the debris. aid is coming in but when will there be enough power, enough food, enough water, is the question. seth doan, cbs news, tacloban, philippines. >> not only are the donations critical to get the supplies to people. a group of nurses is departing sfo in just a few hours to try to take care of some of those
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victims of typhoon haiyan. that's where we find kpix 5's betty yu standing by at the airport. betty, how many of those nurses have signed up so far? >> reporter: ken, about 2,000 nurses from across the country have volunteered to go to the philippines to the registered nurse response network. and of those, 4 of them will specialized skills have been chosen to make the first trip tonight. >> i have my little fannypack, so i can carry, you know, my gloves. >> reporter: she is ready to treat the sick and injured. registered nurse michelle gutierrez knows once she get to the philippines, the number of casualties will go up. the horror will be everywhere. and the help harder to come by. >> i'm anxious, i'm excited, i feel fulfilled when i found out that i am one of the five in the advanced team to actually go there and establish the groundwork. >> reporter: the kaiser permanente nurse from union city is part of the first bay
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area team that will support local doctors and assess medical needs in the hardest- hit areas. the registered nurse response network paid for the trip largely through donations. thigh group organizes nurses for international disaster relief. >> my first time doing disaster relief is for my people. and, you know, that -- to me, i felt like i was very compelled to go. like i said, i need to be sure they are protected. >> reporter: she worries what she will see. >> i don't think there's anything that can prepare anybody for what we're going to see over there. but you know, i have the training. we need to heal them. we need to heal everybody over there and we're in a great position to do that. >> reporter: the group will depart sfo tonight at 9:00. they will return next saturday. important to not number of trips this group makes depends
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on the amount of donations it receives. to help, go to our website, kpix.com to find out how. >> betty yu live at sfo, thank you. you can help by dialing 1-888-5- helps-u. wendy? >> we have another member -- corporation company here in the bay area that is helping out with the effort actually nationwide. tracy curtis president of san francisco wells fargo has a check for us here. >> on behalf of wells fargo we have $125,000 to donate to the red cross for the relief efforts in the philippines. >> thank you. >> this is woody baker cohn from the red cross. woody, what you going to do with this money? >> along with the other contributions that people have been so generously sending in we'll be sending this on to the philippine red cross as our other national societies. so they will use that to procure shelter, supplies, food, water and all the things
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so desperately needed this. >> there are some other things wells fargo is doing as well? >> we are. two other things. you can send money to the philippines through our remittance account free through november 30th. and if you visit a wells fargo atm and you're a wells fargo customer you can donate through our atms. really easy. i did it myself this morning. >> excellent. every penny counts. thank you so much for your good work. thank you for the donation. again $125,000 from wells fargo for the nationwide campaign. ken? >> all right. let's go again to give that you phone number. 1-888-5-helps-u. our total right now $168,500,000. we have more than 1500 donors who have come forward here in the bay area. call us, make a donation. it's what you can do sitting there watching tv tonight. it doesn't take much effort. we have people standing by at the phones. they will take your call and you can really help some people who are in desperate need of help tonight. back to you guys. >> thank you. we'll check back in with you in
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a few minutes. new at 5:00, police are still searching for a hit-and- run driver on the peninsula. now, chopper 5 shows the scene just after 12:30 southbound 280 near black mountain road in hillsborough. chp says that a man driving a toyota 4-runner hit two cars on a shoulder then a flatbed truck. he took off on foot. three people suffered minor injuries. chp looking for the driver of this suv that went off south 880 as you can see into the water near the 66th avenue exit in oakland this afternoon. by the time the officers got there, the driver had fled. the city of walnut creek is already decked out for the holidays. lights are up downtown, businesses ready for what will hopefully be a good season but ryan takeo says not everyone is feeling welcome. >> reporter: crews cleared up three camps near downtown. this homeless man told us he has lived in an encampment for three years and now he has to leave. >> we are trying to be responsible. >> reporter: he blames other
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homeless people who get out of control. he says local businesses complained. >> now the family going to the visual i guess i don't know. >> reporter: homeless advocates estimate there are between 40 and 60 homeless people in walnut creek. the camps were once hidden in plain sight. one of the encampments was right below this bridge on south california. it's only a block away from the outdoor shopping mall. >> kind of shocked. you expect that more in san francisco as opposed to walnut creek. >> reporter: like the downtown trees covered in lights. ja'nae thinks the city is just keeping up appearances. >> i mean, walnut creek i guess is supposed to be pretty nice and uppetty and everybody shopping at nieman marcus and stuff so they expect it to be clean. >> reporter: the clean-up came with an invitation. we found this calling card near one camp. >> everybody was offered shelter. county homeless program bent over backwards to make sure everybody was offered shelter. >> reporter: this outreach worker says most are comfortable in their routine
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but he hopes they will consider going into one of contra costa county's shelters. >> and taking them out of their environment and putting them in concord or san pablo where the shelters are, not everybody wants to do it. >> reporter: what's next? >> i have no idea. >> reporter: the men we talked to would rather set up camp somewhere else. that means starting from scratch and trying to stay under the radar again. in walnut creek, ryan takeo, kpix 5. >> the homeless advocate said the upcoming change in season was a big reason to clear out the camps. he said crews wanted to get the homeless out before rainfall raises the river level near the old camp. a not guilty plea today from the teen accused of running over and killing a bicyclist in pleasanton back in june. a judge also ruled that cody hall will remain in jail without bail. prosecutors are weighing several posts hall made on social media sites like instagram where he bragged about driving over the speed limit. his preliminary hearing is set
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for february 5. pricy laptops stolen from south bay schools. two campuses hit in two weeks. what else the thieves took that's hitting students especially hard. >> in less than 24 hours, san francisco transforms into gotham city. meet the superhero stuntman helping make a 5-year-old's wish come true. >> it was fog city this morning. dense fog until 10 or 11:00, sunshine did not come out until the afternoon. temperatures kept down. santa clara and foster city the 60s. half moon bay today only 56. we'll talk about if the fog will come back tomorrow and some other changes. might need a jacket after you watch the seven-day forecast coming up in 10 minutes. i'm juliette goodrich live in san francisco. so many people opening their hearts and their wallets to typhoon victims and here's one expecting. seniors having a special fundraiser coming up. i'll tell you how you can be part of it. ,,
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a faculty member from galar tary school for the second time in two weeks a san jose school is hit by a large computer theft. a faculty member from ga larz sa elementary school discovered 19 laptop computers were missing from a storage room early tuesday more than. a jar containing $30 the students collected to buy a class pet was also taken. about $70,000 worth of ipads and laptops were also taken from river glen school back in october. the hunt for a bank robbery suspect prompted a lockdown in lafayette. it happened at west america bank on mount diablo boulevard just before 10:00 this morning. several schools in the area were locked down. the suspect managed to get away. the lockdown was lifted shortly after 1 1:00. lockheed martin is slashing 4,000 jobs nationwide and will also close 4 of its buildings in sunnyvale. the defense contractor says the cuts are due to reduced government spending.
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the closure of the buildings on the sunnyvale campus includes the elimination of 200 jobs there. lockheed plans to slash another 2,000 jobs by the end of 2014. got to stick around for this story. san francisco needs a superhero and in a few hours a 5-year-old leukemia patient will see his wish come true. the caped crusader helping transform him into bat kid. >> we are taking calls here right now at kpix 5 to help the typhoon victims in the philippines. the number is 1-888-5-helps-u. our total $168,500 at this point. ,,,,,,,,,,,,
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felder. we have more than $170,000 that has come in now to help the victims of the typhoon in the philippines. we have the deputy consul- general on our call board. we are taking calls at 1-888-5- helps-u. thousands of people need your help in the philippines right now. ken? >> all right. we have to give michael a little work here from live 105 to answer the phone. but in the meantime, as he is answering the phone, food trucks are getting in on the
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fundraising. this is pretty amazing. juliette goodrich is standing by outside of our own building here on battery street and juliette, some people are serving up some filipino style food, i'm hearing? >> reporter: hi, ken. yes. we're talking about a popular filipino food truck. our volunteers were answering the phone. senior c zig is giving back and feeding our volunteers. i want to talk to the owners quickly. they are feeding our volunteers this weekend and on tuesday they have some special fundraisers to also help the typhoon victims. and what are you making now? >> tacos. >> reporter: tell me why you're giving back. . >> we are trying to give back to the community not only the community back to the philippines.
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>> reporter: tell me some of the things you're cook up. sisig tacos. >> we're making tacos for the volunteers working at the telethon. they are giving their time so we want to give something back to them. >> feed our crew out there and in the meantime, i'm going to give some helpful information to our viewers. thank you so much. it's a great cause. and they have a special event on tuesday. it will be in daly city. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., 10% of the proceeds going to the disaster. in addition, this weekend senior sisig will be in san francisco at powell and ellis. so a worthy cause. thank you, guys. thanks to our volunteers. i'll toss it back to you, ken. >> all right, juliette. that looks good. make sure you grab some and bring it up to me because i'm going to need to have dinner tonight. i appreciate that. bay area, you are doing a fantastic job. we are a total for you, $170,482, 1600 donors in the bay area are saying they want to make a difference for what's going on in the philippines. >> so many filipino-americans here in the bay area many with
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family. the phone number to call, 1-888- 5-helps-u. thousands of people, millions of people, need your help. >> all right. back to you guys. >> thank you. in the midst of the botched rollout of the affordable care act, president obama announced a concession today. americans may be able to keep their individual insurance plans for one more year. >> the bottom line is, insurers can extend current plans that would otherwise be canceled into 2014 and americans whose plans have been canceled can choose to re-enroll in the same kind of plan. >> this after millions of people were enraged when their insurers canceled current policies under obamacare. since insurance is regulated at the state level, it's up to the commissioners in each state to permit the extension. this is what california's insurance commissioner had to say. >> i have asked "covered california" to take this action immediately so that health insurers then are freed from this contract provision and can then follow the president's request and my request that
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they allow the existing customers to renew their policies into 2014. >> commissioner dave jones also called on all insurers to issue new notices offering customers the option to renew existing policies. well, it's time to officially get cracking. crab seasons opens at midnight. commercial boaters have been dropping their pots today preparing to haul in fresh dungeness. there is a new rule this year. boats limited to the number of trams they can set. officials also expect a smaller catch following last year's record setter. fishermen also settled on a price though. that means there will be crab on the table on thanksgiving. this is a story we all love around here. san francisco has had its starring roles before, but never has it been transformed into gotham city. but that's going to happen tomorrow to make one little boy's wish come true. the young boy and his family have already arrived in the city. the photo was just posted by make-a-wish foundation bay area. we tracked down the guy who will play a starring role in all of this, batman.
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reporter: 5-year-old miles has been fighting leukemia since he was a year old. he told the make-a-wish foundation, there's one thing he wants, to be the caped crusader. >> there have been plenty of superhero wishes over the years. nothing like this has happened. >> reporter: on friday more than 11,000 volunteers will transform the city by the bay into a giant stage for a crime- fighting batkid and his full- sized batman buddy. >> i'll be introduced to him as a coach who has actually worked with batman. >> reporter: eric johnston has been busy inventing some new batman gadgets. >> this is too secret to show what you it actually does because remember, riddler and penguin watch this channel, too. >> reporter: miles will get some real-life stunt training and then they're off and running. first challenge, rescue the damsel in distress about to get run over by a cable car. >> she will be tied to the cage car tracks. >> reporter: next up, stop the
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riddler from robbing this store downtown. >> the riddler is a tricky one. >> reporter: then, a run-in with the penguin, who is trying to kidnap lucille. a chase to at&t park, and finally a hero's welcome at civic center. >> my wish for this is that he comes out of it with the best day of his life ever. >> well, miles lives in tulelake in siskiyou county. the make-a-wish foundation says it was hoping to find 200 volunteers but then miles' wish went viral. they started planning all of this back in march. >> wow, they have 10,000 people to sign up. another guy who would like to be a caped crusader. wouldn't you >> just a humble weatherman, yes. that would be a lot of fun, i'll tell you what. great cause there. great cause going on right here. 1-888-5-helps-u is the number to call. millions of people in the philippines need your help. before we get back to the telethon, i want to tell you about our local weather which was a big change today. we are talking 20 degrees cooler for some of you. there's a live look outside.
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you can just make out the silhouette there of mount diablo. that's from our mount vaca cam. let's switch to our other camera which is the golden gate bridge. the fog is gone. man were we chilly today! look at these temperatures already. down to 58 in san jose. 59 in santa rosa. concord 61. and oakland 57. let's talk about where we're going tonight because it's going to be chilly in the north bay. many of you will drop down to the upper 30s. the cities of santa rosa and napa staying at 40. fremont waking up to 42, concord 44 and mountain view 47 degrees. so what's going to be on for the next couple of days? we are still being dominated by this big ridge of high pressure. but there is a very active storm track that we are not tapping into. all the activity will stay to the north and cold air will stay to our east but as we roll through time here, that high pressure dome will sag a little bit to the south. that will give us a west-to- east flow so it will be enough to keep us dry. the rain will miss us but we will tap into a little bit of that chilly air and i'm pretty
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confident that we will not see a 70-degree day for the next seven days. so what to expect over the next several days, we're talking about less fog if any fog tomorrow morning. but you will notice a breeze especially in the afternoon. the onshore flow will keep our highs in the 60s for the next several days. so we will feel like fall outside. but no rainfall for you. we are going to stay rain-free. let's look at temperatures now highs tomorrow and then we are getting right to the seven-day forecast. san francisco 62. livermore tomorrow 66. and chilly in san jose 65. there is your extended forecast. a little cloudier on saturday. low 60s. we stay in the mid-60s on sunday. and next week, no rainfall but temperatures will be a little bit chilly. we'll be right back.
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country are cleaning out thr closets and cupboards in hopes of helping people in e philippines. but on the co a lot of well intentioned people are putting together clothes and food to send to the philippines but on the consumerwatch julie watts explains why that's not such a great idea. >> reporter: as you know, we are collecting monetary donations here tonight and that has some asking why not collect
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canned goods and clothing? the answer, sometimes sending your stuff overseas can do more harm than good. pictures like these of starving fill.no children begging for food -- filipino children begging for food triggered the instinct to help and while collecting canned goods may seem like the answer, following disasters like the typhoon and the 2014 indonesian tsunami, think about how much time and money it takes to actually get this food to these people. according to the red cross, between sorting, packaging, shipping and distributing it could cost more than $15 to get just one can overseas. not only does it take up valuable runway space, but that same $15 can be used to purchase 10 times the food from filipino stores and cities spared by the storm like the capital, manila, providing a much-needed stimulus for the local economy. the same is true for donated shoes and clothing. following the 2004 tsunami, clothes including santa costumes and high heels lined the streets of sri lanka.
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not only did they find it degrading to be shipped other people's unwanted stuff, but it created a secondary mess that then needed to be cleaned up. so the red cross and others ask you resist the urge to send your old stuff overseas and instead they ask you open your hearts and your pocketbooks to help the experts help those in need. your money can be used to help the disaster victims buy their own new clothes and help the red cross buy pallets of food already packaged and ready to distribute. so please donate now. 1-888-5-helps-u. we'll be right back. at kaiser permanente we've reduced serious heart attacks by 62%, which makes days with grandpa jack 100% more possible. join us at kp.org and thrive.
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safeway. ingredients for life. standing by waiting for youo call. whatever money you donate today goes to the vis of typhoon hiyan. why, so i know it's only a couple of seconds left in the show. i want to introduce randy and mike muni mechanics who gathered how much? >> 325. > $325. i don't care if it's $5, $10, a dollar to. the muni mechanics come through. >> muni mechanics coming through and so are viewers. wells fargo our new number $301,812. that's what we have done in the course of these last few minutes. the number to call, 1-888-5- helps-u. thank you so much. allen and liz, back to you. >> that's just fantastic. what an effort. and we still have 90 minutes to go. >> amazing. >> very generous people. thanks, guys. >> thanks. thanks so much. all right on the the "cbs evening news with scott pelley" is next. >> and remember, the latest news and weather are always on
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our website, kpix.com. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> pelley: tonight, the president takes >> we fumbled the roll out on this health care law. >> pelley: mr. obama expresses regret and rolls back part of obamacare. >> you say you're back to zero. how do you start again? >> pelley: seth doane with survivors of the super typhoon, fending off hunger, waiting for rescue. a big city mayor fights for his job after new rounds of charges of misconduct. and the kennedy assassination. bob schieffer tells the story through police recordings, some never heard until tonight. captioning sponsored by cbs by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. president obama set out to fix a broken promise today. he

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